Bedoba, Saperavi

Bedoba Saperavi blends the best of Georgia’s 8000 year winemaking tradition with modern winemaking techniques to create a wine with the earthy notes of their traditional wines with the clean, precise fruit flavours of modern wine.

Made from a unique grape variety – Saperavi, one of the few black grape varieties to feature red flesh and juice – hand-harvested from 30-year-old vines from sustainable and organic vineyards.

After pressing and fermentation, the wine is matured in a combination of qvevri – traditional large earthenware amphorae set into the ground – stainless steel vats, large wooden vats, and American oak barrels.

This wine is dark purple in colour. The nose opens with a powerful savoury-spicy bouquet of blackberries, herbs, flowers and black pepper. The palate has a creamy, juicy texture, ripe tannins and black fruit flavours.

Bedoba is made from grapes sourced from vineyards located in the classic and traditional microzones of Kindzmarauli and Kvareli, in the Kakheti region in a valley where the Duruji River used to run. On the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains at altitudes of over 400 metres above sea level, the soils are rich in black shale, bringing fresh acidity and soft tannins.